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Exodus 22 Genesis 21 John Grisham 14 Ulysses 11 Revelation 11 Stephen King 10 Daniel 10 A Clockwork Orange 10 Tom Clancy 9 The Scarlet Letter 9 Ruth 9 Philip Roth 9 Judges 9 Goodnight Moon 9 1984 9 On The Road 9 The Great Gatsby 8 Psalms 8 Job 8 Jane Eyre 8 Gone with the Wind 8 Catch-22 8 Anne Rice 8 William Faulkner 8

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Exodus 22x 9.1% stumper $477 avg J:15 DJ:7

J $100 1998 In 1998 Israel celebrated its 50th anniversary & this Leon Uris book celebrated its 40th

J $600 2007 Brother's bovine effigy bothers big boy

DJ $1,000 1993 Leon Uris titled Book I of this novel "Beyond Jordan"

Genesis 21x 4.8% stumper $438 avg J:16 DJ:5

J $200 2025 "And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind"

J $600 2007 Mike Rutherford, Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, et al.

J $1,000 2016 This band had a hit with "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight"

Ulysses 11x 18.2% stumper $873 avg J:5 DJ:6

J $400 2020 Stephen Dedalus, Molly Bloom

J $600 2018 A landmark obscenity case in 1933 lifted a ban in the U.S. on this James Joyce work

J $1,000 2025 Malachi is the real name of "Buck" Mulligan, roommate of Stephen Dedalus mentioned in the first sentence of this novel

Revelation 11x 18.2% stumper $818 avg J:7 DJ:4

J $400 2025 "I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof?"

J $600 2016 VIOLENT ERA

J $1,000 2014 A dramatic disclosure or discovery

Daniel 10x 60.0% stumper $740 avg J:8 DJ:2

J $200 2016 DENIAL

J $600 2008 This prophet interpreted Nebuchadnezzar's dream for him

J $1,000 2015 Nicaraguan President Ortega; conductor Barenboim

A Clockwork Orange 10x $1,180 avg J:4 DJ:6

J $400 1988 Chapter 21, with the hero's redemption, was not included in U.S. editions of this 1962 A. Burgess book

J $800 2018 Many schools banned this Anthony Burgess novel due to its extreme violence

J $1,000 2023 How to re-educate violent people like Alex in this novel? "My top glazz-lids were pulled up & up & up & I could not shut my glazzies"

Philip Roth 9x 22.2% stumper $822 avg J:4 DJ:5

J $200 2000 "The Great American Novel","Zuckerman Bound","Portnoy's Complaint"

DJ $800 1992 "Paternity" by this "Goodbye, Columbus" author is an account of his late father

J $1,000 2013 He has won for "Sabbath's Theater" & "Goodbye, Columbus"

Judges 9x 11.1% stumper $578 avg J:6 DJ:3

J $200 2018 Jg--your ruling, please

DJ $600 DD 2011 Joshua

DJ $2,000 DD 2010 6 letters:Learned Hand, Joseph Crater (once "the most missingest man in America")

On The Road 9x 22.2% stumper $1,111 avg J:4 DJ:5

J $200 2023 From 2006, it's Cormac McCarthy's title post-apocalyptic byway

DJ $2,000 2005 The Gaelic "Go n-eiri an bothar leat", used for "have a good trip", is literally the wish may this "rise to meet you"

J $200 2015 The Beat Generation Bible:"I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up"

Job 8x 25.0% stumper $1,050 avg J:6 DJ:2

DJ $200 DD 2004 Out of the whirlwind, God tells him to "Gird up thy loins now like a man" in Chapter 40 of his book

J $800 2017 "My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome"

J $1,000 2011 "But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face"

Catch-22 8x 12.5% stumper $925 avg J:5 DJ:3

J $600 2016 Tarzan enjoy dark humor but ponder insanity of war after read bombardier snared in Air Force bureaucracy

J $1,000 2014 It begins, "It was love at first sight. The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain he fell madly in love with him"

J $600 2006 Heller of a book/Gotta be crazy to fly/Major Major Gripes

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar 7x $667 avg J:6 FJ:1

J $400 2023 Eric Carle is perhaps best remembered for this book about a week in the life of a ravenous larva

J $600 2025 "Then he nibbled a hole in the cocoon, pushed his way out and... he was a beautiful butterfly!"

J $1,000 2018 The title character of this book eats through one apple, 2 pears, 3 plums, 4 strawberries & 5 oranges

Sophie's Choice 7x 28.6% stumper $629 avg J:2 DJ:5

J $200 2013 We wonder if it was a difficult decision to name this William Styron novel the 1980 hardcover fiction winner

DJ $600 1987 William Styron's 1979 story of a Polish Catholic survivor of Auschwitz

DJ $1,200 2011 "S.C."by William Styron

Proverbs 7x 14.3% stumper $771 avg J:5 DJ:2

J $400 2007 Short pithy sayings espousing fundamental truths

J $600 2017 "A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother"

J $1,000 2012 "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction"

Heart of Darkness 7x $829 avg J:5 DJ:2

J $200 2012 This story published in 1902, based on Joseph Conrad's experiences in Africa, is not "light" reading

DJ $800 2021 In this novella, Marlow describes ivory trader Mr. Kurtz as "impressively bald" as "an ivory ball"

J $1,000 2009 This Conrad book describes Marlow as a seaman, but a wanderer, too

Where the Wild Things Are 6x $920 avg J:3 DJ:2 FJ:1

J $200 2023 This tale about Max & some monsters was later turned into a short opera featuring a libretto by Maurice Sendak

J $800 2017 "Let the wild rumpus start!" is a line from this favorite

DJ $1,200 2009 "They roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes"

War and Peace 6x $433 avg J:3 DJ:3

J $200 2015 Tolstoy focused more on a major part of Russian history & changed "All's Well That Ends Well" to this title

J $800 2012 The Russian classic "Krieg und Frieden"

DJ $400 2018 Mathieu Kassovitz played Napoleon & Jim Broadbent was Prince Nikolai Bolkonsky in the 2016 BBC version of this Tolstoy novel

The Little Prince 6x 16.7% stumper $1,000 avg J:5 DJ:1

J $200 2020 Here's an image from the cover of this royal fable

J $600 2025 This title character of kid lit got to Earth all the way from asteroid B-612

J $1,000 2022 A French fable:"Regulus"

Lord of the Flies 6x $767 avg J:3 DJ:3

DJ $400 2017 Boys in this William Golding novel create a "rude shelter" of "palm trunks and leaves"

J $600 2011 It's about little kids, but not necessarily for little kids

J $1,000 DD 2021 Translating the name of a Philistine god mentioned in 2 Kings gives this 1954 novel about castaways its title

Little Women 6x $667 avg J:3 DJ:3

J $200 2021 "Amy's Valley of Humiliation", "Jo Meets Apollyon"

DJ $800 2024 In this novel Amy seems to be a favorite with her aunts: a ring from Aunt March & a trip to Europe with Aunt Carrol

DJ $1,600 2007 Chapter 8 of this 1860s novel is "Jo Meets Apollyon"

Jonah 6x 33.3% stumper $550 avg J:5 DJ:1

J $200 2012 A great fish swallows a reluctant prophet

DJ $500 DD 2011 John 3

J $400 2007 Big fish puts the bite on a reluctant prophet

John Updike 6x 16.7% stumper $683 avg J:3 DJ:3

J $200 1987 Author of "The Witches of Eastwick"

J $500 1986 A good ear for the angst of suburban dialog characterizes this author's "Rabbit" novels

J $1,000 DD 2009 In 2008 the Times called this author's "The Widows of Eastwick" a "predictably ingenious sequel"

Henry James 6x 33.3% stumper $1,100 avg J:1 DJ:5

J $400 1992 Susannah York taped an audio version of his scary novella "The Turn of the Screw"

DJ $600 1986 Though he wrote "The Europeans" & in 1915 became one, both he & brother William were born Americans

DJ $1,600 2025 "Portrait of a Novel" by Michael Gorra is a biography of this author & the backstory of his "Portrait of a Lady"

Carrie Fisher 6x $700 avg J:2 DJ:4

J $200 1993 She dedicated "Postcards from the Edge" to her brother Todd & her mother, Debbie Reynolds

J $1,000 2012 In "The Best Awful", she continued the story of Suzanne Vale from "Postcards from the Edge"

DJ $400 2013 This actress' first screenplay was an adaptation of her own book "Postcards from the Edge"

Theodore Dreiser 5x 20.0% stumper $920 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $300 1999 This author of "An American Tragedy" also wrote a little-read treatise called "Tragic America"

J $500 2001 His "tales of failure are his successes, and 'An American Tragedy', in which failure is unalleviated, is his greatest success"

DJ $1,000 1992 Frank Norris discovered this author's "Sister Carrie" while working for a publisher

Ray Bradbury 5x $600 avg J:3 DJ:2

J $400 2006 Guy Montag is back, & those books are gonna pay in this author's "Celsius 232.78"

DJ $800 2007 In 1947 he published his first story collection, "Dark Carnival"; the "Martian Chronicles" came 3 years later

J $1,000 2008 R.L. Stine said the works of this author, including "Dandelion Wine", changed his life

Jude 5x 20.0% stumper $760 avg J:2 DJ:3

DJ $400 2011 Hey___Law

J $600 2013 ...Revelation (Hey...!)

DJ $1,200 2008 Hey, this, don't be "obscure"

Danielle Steel 5x 60.0% stumper $720 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $300 2001 This prolific novelist proved her "metal" once again with her 2000 bestseller "The House on Hope Street"

J $500 1988 "Zoya", described as a Russian saga, is this romance novelist's 22nd consecutive best seller

DJ $1,600 2002 Besides writing romances like "The Kiss", she wrote "His Bright Light", a memoir of her son Nick Traina, who died at 19

Acts 5x $840 avg J:3 DJ:2

J $200 2014 Major divisions of plays, made up of scenes

J $600 2021 Paul preaches in Rome

DJ $2,000 2009 "Then Peter said, silver & gold I have none... in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk"

The Pilgrim's Progress 5x $840 avg J:1 DJ:4

DJ $400 2009 "T.P.P."by John Bunyan

DJ $600 1989 In this book Christian journeys from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City

DJ $1,200 2015 John Bunyan began writing this 1678 work while in an English prison for preaching without a license

Like Water for Chocolate 5x 40.0% stumper $560 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $200 2023 Archie Costello leads the Vigils, a gang of school kids enforcing the sale of this title sweet treat in a Robert Cormier "War" novel

DJ $800 1994 The Robert Cormier book about a "War" over this sweet has been challenged all over the country

DJ $1,200 2025 Each chapter of this tasty novel from Laura Esquivel begins with a recipe from Mexico that's integral to the story

Wonder Woman 4x $325 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $200 1985 Psychiatrist Wm. Marston developed the lie detector & this well-developed Amazon

J $300 1999 Lynda Carter

J $400 2019 Donna Troy was an orphan this woman brought back to Paradise Island

Vanity Fair 4x 25.0% stumper $1,200 avg DJ:4

DJ $800 DD 1992 The work subtitled "A Novel Without a Hero" in which Thackeray told tales of B. Sharp & A. Sedley

DJ $1,200 2021 This Thackeray book arrived in 1848; the first version of what is now the same-named magazine, 11 years later

DJ $1,200 2010 Thackeray's "A Novel Without a Hero"

True Blood 4x $650 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $400 2014 A book of "drinks and bites" themed to this TV show includes the Bon Temps Sazerac & Arti-Choked-to-Death Dip

J $600 2020 The good times roll in Bon Temps, Louisiana, the setting for this drama where some folks really vamped it up

DJ $800 2016 Sink your teeth into this HBO series that was based on Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse novels

Their Eyes Were Watching God 4x $1,500 avg DJ:4

DJ $1,200 2023 Early in this novel Zora Neale Hurston observes, "Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board"

DJ $1,600 2024 Tea Cake is Janie Crawford's third husband in this classic by Zora Neale Hurston

DJ $1,600 2013 In 2005 TV viewers could see "Oprah Winfrey Presents" this Zora Neale Hurston book

The Red Badge of Courage 4x 25.0% stumper $1,600 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $400 2016 1895:Crane."Colorful".War

J $1,000 2019 Stephen Crane considered calling this work "Private Fleming: His Various Battles"

DJ $2,000 DD 1988 This 1895 novel, subtitled "An Episode of the American Civil War", was written by a 22-year-old

The Outsiders 4x $850 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $600 2023 In this S.E. Hinton novel, it's the Socs vs. the Greasers, & Dally is a bit of a thug

J $1,000 2025 Dally Winston, leader of the Greasers, & Cherry Valance, a Soc cheerleader

J $800 2020 Ponyboy Curtis, Johnny Cade, Cherry Valance

The Good Earth 4x $600 avg J:3 DJ:1

DJ $200 2001 Pearl Buck won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for this book

J $800 2006 1931/Everyone Wang Lung tonight/& the Buck stops here

J $1,000 2024 Pearl S. Buck won a Pulitzer for this novel set in China

The Executioner's Song 4x 25.0% stumper $1,850 avg DJ:4

DJ $800 1992 Norman Mailer called this Pulitzer Prize winner about Gary Gilmore "a true life novel"

DJ $1,600 2009 This Norman Mailer work is the true story of murderer Gary Gilmore, who chose a firing squad when given the death penalty

DJ $2,000 2019 This work by Norman Mailer tells of convicted killer Gary Gilmore, who chose death by firing squad

The Color Purple 4x $350 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $200 2022 Per an Alice Walker novel, God will be mad if you don't notice it in a field

DJ $800 2012 This 1982 novel by Alice Walker traces Celie's growth from self-hatred to independence

J $200 2012 In "The Same River Twice", Alice Walker wrote about the making of the film based on this novel of hers

the Civil War 4x $275 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $100 1988 Bruce Catton is best known for writing books about this event

DJ $200 1994 Bruce Catton completed his 3-volume "Centennial History of" this war in 1965

DJ $400 2024 The Hazard & Main families are divided by this conflict in "Love & War", part of John Jakes' "North & South" trilogy

The Age of Innocence 4x 25.0% stumper $850 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $400 2019 The first woman to win the Pulitzer for Fiction, Edith Wharton won for this 1920 novel about 1870s New York City

J $600 2013 Edith Wharton:"Zeit der Unschuld"

DJ $2,000 2025 At the end of this novel, Newland Archer looks up at the apartment of the love of his life & heads back to his hotel

Stephen Hawking 4x $450 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $200 1998 You could write a brief history of the times people have tackled this physicist's "A Brief History of Time"

DJ $800 2011 He felt his "Brief History of Time" left unanswered questions, so he came up with "The Grand Design" to answer them

DJ $400 2025 This physicist followed up "A Brief History of Time" a few years later with "A Briefer History of Time"

Solomon 4x $200 avg J:4

J $200 2021 An H. Rider Haggard novel from 1885 saw Allan Quatermain looking for this king's mines

J $200 2017 Chapter 1 tells you you're reading "the proverbs of" this man, "king of Israel"

J $200 2008 He said, "Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other"

San Francisco 4x $600 avg J:2 DJ:2

DJ $400 2019 In Armistead Maupin's "Tales of the City", the city is this one "by the bay"

J $600 2023 "The Joy Luck Club":Bay breeze

J $600 2016 In 2009's "Homicide in Hardcover", a woman hunts a murderer among book collectors & hippies in this California city

Rebecca 4x 25.0% stumper $950 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $800 2018 Evil housekeeper Mrs. Danvers almost persuades a young wife to kill herself in this Daphne Du Maurier novel

J $1,000 2011 Manderley, which the second Mrs. de Winter dreamt she went to again

DJ $800 2013 Daphne du Maurier remembered her original idea for this book as "A beautiful home... a first wife... jealousy..."

Pippi Longstocking 4x $550 avg J:3 DJ:1

DJ $200 1993 The first sequel to this Astrid Lindgren book about a red-headed girl is "Pippi Goes On Board"

J $800 2025 Stieg Larsson imagined Lisbeth Salander as a grown-up & tatted-up version of this Astrid Lindgren character

J $400 1988 Astrid Lindgren writes books about this redhead who pals around with a monkey named Mr. Nilsson

Outlander 4x 50.0% stumper $2,050 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $1,000 2019 7 of the top 10 books on the list were written by women, including this series by Diana Gabaldon

DJ $1,600 2019 Diana Gabaldon gave Lord John Grey, an important recurring character in this series, a series of his own

DJ $1,600 2015 "Drums of Autumn" is the 4th book in this series about a woman traveling through time using an ancient Scottish stone circle

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 4x $933 avg J:2 DJ:1 FJ:1

J $600 2009 McMurphy tries to break torpor of inmates by stage war on authority in this. Tarzan ponder who truly insane in world

J $1,000 2008 This 1962 novel by Ken Kesey was adapted for the big screen in 1975 & won 5 Academy Awards

FJ 2019 This title of a 1962 novel & 1975 film refers to the direction the last of 3 geese took in an old nursery rhyme

New York 4x $350 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $200 2020 With 10.3 million, it's the largest American state by population according to the 1920 Census

DJ $400 2019 With its main store at Broadway & 12th Street, Strand Books in this city boasts "18 miles of books"

DJ $400 2015 A nature trail in Van Cortlandt Park is named for John Kieran, author of "A Natural History of" this metropolis

Madeline 4x $950 avg J:4

J $800 2022 She is the smallest of the 12 girls who live in a vine-covered house in Paris

J $1,000 2021 This French schoolgirl can often be found wearing a sailor hat; one of Ludwig Bemelmans' books is her "and the Bad Hat"

J $1,000 2017 The book about her begins, "In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines lived twelve little girls in two straight lines"

Life of Pi 4x 25.0% stumper $1,600 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $600 2016 A storm sinks the freighter Tsimtsum, setting the title character adrift in a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger in this novel

DJ $1,600 2003 This 2002 novel by Yann Martel tells the story of 16-year-old Pi Patel, who survives a shipwreck

J $800 2023 Richard Parker is actually a 450-pound Bengal tiger in this novel by Yann Martel

Lady Chatterley's Lover 4x $900 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $400 2008 A third, more sexually explicit version of this 1928 D.H. Lawrence novel was finally published in the U.S. in 1959

J $800 2021 In "Pleasantville" Reese Witherspoon goes from black & white to color after reading this novel by D.H. Lawrence

DJ $1,200 2026 In 1959 a federal judge ruled that the U.S. Post Office could no longer confiscate copies of this D.H. Lawrence novel

John Irving 4x $800 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $400 2000 "The 158-Pound Marriage","The Cider House Rules","A Son of the Circus"

DJ $800 1993 This author of "The World According to Garp" called it "an artfully disguised soap opera"

DJ $1,000 1999 1998's "Simon Birch" was a loose adaptation of this author's "A Prayer for Owen Meany"

John 4x 50.0% stumper $600 avg J:2 DJ:2

DJ $400 2016 3 of the 4 Gospels are "synoptic", or similar in presentation; this fourth one is the outlier

J $600 2021 The word is with God; a light shines in the darkness; Jesus resurrects Lazarus

J $1,000 2012 Thomas doubts the other apostles have really met the risen Jesus

Jeremiah 4x $850 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $800 2016 First word of Three Dog Night's "Joy To The World"

J $1,000 2013 ...Lamentations (the prophet said to be doing the lamenting)

DJ $800 2008 In a 1971 song he "was a bullfrog"

James Clavell 4x $475 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $100 1988 His books "Shogun", "Whirlwind", "Noble House" & "Tai-pan" have all inspired board games

DJ $1,000 1987 Author of both, he called his screenplay for 1958's "The Fly" "Equal in quality to 'Noble House'"

DJ $400 1997 His 1993 novel "Gai-Jin" takes place in 19th century Japan

Isaiah 4x 50.0% stumper $950 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $400 2003 It's the book abbreviated Is.

J $800 2014 Yeshayahu is the Hebrew name of this prophet

J $1,000 2023 The Hebrew name of this prophet with his own book is Yeshayahu, "God is salvation"

Isaac Asimov 4x 50.0% stumper $600 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $200 1998 This prolific author's "Foundation Trilogy" is one of the best-loved works of science fiction

DJ $600 1999 His 1950 classic "I, Robot" contains 9 related stories about (what else?) robots

DJ $800 2014 In the short story "Nightfall" by this prolific sci-fi writer, a planet with 6 suns goes dark

Heaven 4x 25.0% stumper $1,100 avg DJ:4

DJ $400 2018 Dr. Mary Neal's account of her own near death experience after drowning is titled "To" this place "and Back"

DJ $1,600 2012 In an inspiring story, Colton Burpo, the young son of a Nebraska pastor, tells readers this place "is for real"

DJ $400 2007 In 2003 Mitch Albom had a No. 1 bestseller with "The Five People You Meet" here

Finnegans Wake 4x 50.0% stumper $1,200 avg DJ:4

DJ $600 1998 After starting this last James Joyce novel, you may talkingbe pas Anglais this saway

DJ $1,000 1988 James Joyce novel that presents the dreams & nightmares of H.C. Earwicker

DJ $1,200 2016 The idea of this Joyce novel is that history is cyclic; the book begins with a sentence that is unfinished on the last page

Field of Dreams 4x $350 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $200 2011 As in the book "Shoeless Joe" by W.P. Kinsella, farmer Ray Kinsella hears voices in this film

DJ $400 2019 The novel "Shoeless Joe" by W.P. Kinsella was the basis of this 1989 film

DJ $400 2016 "Shoeless Joe" by W.P. Kinsella

Elvis Presley 4x $375 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $100 2001 Kathryn Glasgow's first novel, "Another Song About the King", features a mom obsessed with this singer

DJ $800 2003 "Last Train to Memphis" tells of the first part of this man's life up to the death of his mother

DJ $200 1998 This Mississippi native's high school activities included Speech Club, History Club & ROTC

Don Quixote 4x 25.0% stumper $200 avg J:4

J $200 2025 "'There is no maiden fairer than the Empress of La Mancha, the peerless Dulcinea del Toboso'"

J $200 2025 Chapter 2 of this Cervantes classic is "Treats of the First Sally the Ingenious" title guy "Made from Home"

J $200 2016 "Of What Happened to the Ingenious Gentleman in the Inn Which He Took to Be a Castle"

Deuteronomy 4x 25.0% stumper $1,200 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $400 1999 This fifth book of the Pentateuch consists mostly of Moses laying down the law

DJ $1,200 2011 Numbers

DJ $1,200 2007 DENY OUR TOME

D.H. Lawrence 4x 25.0% stumper $825 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $300 1998 His first novel "The White Peacock" preceded "Sons and Lovers" by 2 years

DJ $600 1992 In 1960 a London court ruled that his "Lady Chatterley's Lover" was not obscene & could be published

DJ $2,000 2024 His novel "Women in Love" recounts the lives & romances of the Brangwen sisters

Bill Cosby 4x $200 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $200 2001 Harvard shrink Dr. Alvin Poussaint wrote the afterword to this TV dad's "Fatherhood"

DJ $200 1997 In 1986 & 1987 this comic topped the bestseller list with "Fatherhood" & "Time Flies"

DJ $200 1993 2 years in a row, this comedian topped the bestseller list with "Fatherhood" & "Time Flies"

Bernard Malamud 4x 75.0% stumper $1,250 avg DJ:4

DJ $800 1994 Ken Howard went to bat to read this author's "The Natural"

DJ $1,000 1994 1958's "The Magic Barrel" was the first volume of short stories by this author of "The Fixer"

DJ $1,200 2009 In a book by this author, "The Assistant" works in a Brooklyn grocery store

Around the World in Eighty Days 4x $900 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $200 2024 This novel was originally published as "le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours"

J $600 2023 Though my memory is Fogg-y, that guy may have a serious gambling problem; far to travel & under 3 months to do it... go!

DJ $1,200 2022 A recent TV adaptation of this 1872 novel has David Tennant as the globe-trotting adventurer trying to win a wager

Anna Karenina 4x $1,200 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $200 2016 After her affair with Count Vronsky, she commits suicide by throwing herself in front of a train

J $600 2010 1878:Heroine.Russia.Affair.Exile.Paranoia.Train!

DJ $1,000 DD 2016 1878:Vronsky.Train.Oops

Alice Walker 4x 25.0% stumper $750 avg DJ:4

DJ $400 2009 Ralph Ellison was the first African American to win the fiction award; "Purple" prose made this woman the second

DJ $600 1993 She described her bestseller "The Temple of My Familiar" as "A romance of the last 500,000 years"

DJ $1,000 1993 She wrote the recent bestseller "Possessing the Secret of Joy"

Alaska 4x $625 avg J:2 DJ:2

DJ $200 1989 This state was the setting for Edna Ferber's novel "Ice Palace"

J $500 DD 2012 In 1867 it cost the U.S. about 2 cents an acre to buy this

J $1,000 DD 2008 If you've just bought the book "Discovering Denali", you must be planning a trip to this state

A Passage to India 4x $1,275 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $500 2001 E.M. Forster's experience as a secretary to an Indian prince was put to good use in this 1924 novel

DJ $3,000 DD 2011 E.M. Forster dedicated this 1924 novel to Syed Ross Mahood, who showed him "new horizons and a new civilization"

J $800 2011 I finally caved & readthis1924 British novel

Worth Knowing (252)

World War II 3 Washington Irving 3 Uncle Tom's Cabin 3 Twilight 3 Tom Wolfe 3 Thomas Wolfe 3 The Velveteen Rabbit 3 The Right Stuff 3 the red and the black 3 The Naked and the Dead 3 The Maze Runner 3 The Martian 3 The Last of the Mohicans 3 The Kite Runner 3 The Jungle 3 The Hunger Games 3 The Hunchback of Notre Dame 3 The Hate U Give 3 The Giving Tree 3 The English Patient 3 The Diary of Anne Frank 3 The Brothers Karamazov 3 The Bridges of Madison County 3 The Book of the Dead 3 The Book of Mormon 3 The Bell Jar 3 Texas 3 Station Eleven 3 Solzhenitsyn 3 Sidney Sheldon 3 Seabiscuit 3 Scarlett 3 Saul Bellow 3 Samuel Johnson 3 Roxanne Pulitzer 3 Rosemary's Baby 3 Rachel Carson 3 Percy Jackson 3 Oprah Winfrey 3 One Hundred Years of Solitude 3 Norman Mailer 3 murder 3 Moby-Dick 3 Michener 3 Michael Crichton 3 Memoirs of a Geisha 3 Mario Puzo 3 Margaret Mead 3 Love Story 3 Louis L'Amour 3 Lolita 3 Leviticus 3 Leon Uris 3 Lamentations 3 Lady Chatterley 3 Jurassic Park 3 John F. Kennedy 3 Joan Rivers 3 Jean Valjean 3 Jaws 3 James Joyce 3 James Herriot 3 James Fenimore Cooper 3 Jackie Collins 3 I, Claudius 3 Howards End 3 How Stella Got Her Groove Back 3 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 3 Goodfellas 3 German 3 Friday Night Lights 3 Frank Sinatra 3 Fire 3 Fifty Shades of Grey 3 Fannie Flagg 3 Esther 3 Edith Wharton 3 Edgar Rice Burroughs 3 Doctor Dolittle 3 Despereaux 3 Deepak Chopra 3 Cujo 3 Cormac McCarthy 3 Chile 3 Boris Pasternak 3 Black Beauty 3 Bernadette 3 Berlin 3 Bees 3 Bambi 3 Babar 3 Australia 3 Atlas Shrugged 3 Arthur Ashe 3 All the President's Men 3 A Separate Peace 3 2010 3 (Joe) Wambaugh 3 (Elie) Wiesel 3 You've Got Mail 2 World War Z 2 Wolf Hall 2 Winnie-The-Pooh 2 Winn-Dixie 2 Wimpy 2 William Styron 2 William Shatner 2 William Peter Blatty 2 Who Moved My Cheese? 2 Watership Down 2 Voldemort 2 Virginia 2 Vietnam 2 Uriah Heep 2 Tuck 2 Trainspotting 2 Tom Jones 2 Tom Brokaw 2 Toast 2 throw the book at him 2 Thomas Pynchon 2 The World Almanac 2 The World According to Garp 2 The Winds of War 2 The Virginian 2 the Vietnam War 2 the vampire 2 The Time Machine 2 The Three Musketeers 2 the spine 2 The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 the Romanovs 2 The Prince of Tides 2 the pigeon 2 The Phantom of the Opera 2 The Pelican Brief 2 the Odyssey 2 The Neverending Story 2 The Nanny Diaries 2 The Mosquito Coast 2 The Member of the Wedding 2 The Maltese Falcon 2 the Magic Tree House 2 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 2 The Last Picture Show 2 the Joy of Cooking 2 The Joy Luck Club 2 The Hunchback of Notre-Dame 2 The Guns of Navarone 2 The Golden Compass 2 The Godfather 2 The Fountainhead 2 the Domesday Book 2 The Day of the Locust 2 the Dalai Lama 2 The Cider House Rules 2 The Celestine Prophecy 2 the Boston Red Sox 2 the Bible 2 the Artful Dodger 2 the appendix 2 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 2 Tennessee Williams 2 Tehran 2 Tarzan 2 Tales of the South Pacific 2 Ta-Nehisi Coates 2 Sylvia Plath 2 Steve Martin 2 Stellaluna 2 spy 2 Spider-Man 2 Sounder 2 Sookie Stackhouse 2 So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish 2 Snape 2 Sinclair 2 Sigmund Freud 2 Shirley MacLaine 2 She Persisted 2 Seth 2 Sarah Palin 2 Sarah Ferguson 2 Samuel 2 Rudolph Giuliani 2 Roots 2 Romans 2 Robinson Crusoe 2 Robert Ludlum 2 Richard Wright 2 Red 2 Raskolnikov 2 Quo Vadis 2 Quidditch 2 Planet of the Apes 2 Plain & Tall 2 Pinocchio 2 Peter Rabbit 2 Pearl S. Buck 2 Pat Conroy 2 Parallel Lives 2 Oliver Twist 2 Oil 2 Of Human Bondage 2 October 2 North Korea 2 Norman Vincent Peale 2 none 2 Noah 2 Nicholas Sparks 2 New Zealand 2 Neil Gaiman 2 Nehemiah 2 National Velvet 2 Nancy Reagan 2 Mindy Kaling 2 Million Dollar Baby 2 Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil 2 Meatballs 2 Me Before You 2 Matthew 2 Mary Higgins Clark 2 Martin Cruz Smith 2 Marley 2 Maria Shriver 2 Marcus Aurelius 2 Mao 2 Malcolm X 2 Make Way for Ducklings 2 Love in the Time of Cholera 2 Love 2 Lorraine Hansberry 2 Lonesome Dove 2 Llama Llama 2 Little Lord Fauntleroy 2 like 2 Leonard Nimoy 2 Leo Tolstoy 2 Left Behind 2 Laura Bush 2 Last Exit to Brooklyn 2 Larry McMurtry 2 Larry King 2 Kuwait 2 Kissinger 2 Kiss of the Spider Woman 2 Kings 2 Ken Follett 2 Julie Christie 2 Joseph Heller 2 Joseph Conrad 2 Joseph 2

Mystery / Thriller

36 answers | 141 clues

Must-Know (3)

John Grisham 14x $571 avg J:3 DJ:11

J $200 2024 "The Pelican Brief" &"The Client"

J $600 2010 "Ford County", his first collection of short stories, is set in Ford County, Mississippi, like his novel "A Time to Kill"

DJ $1,000 1994 Originally published in 1989, "A Time to Kill" was this author's first novel

Stephen King 10x 20.0% stumper $600 avg J:1 DJ:9

DJ $200 1997 In 1996 he simultaneously published "The Regulators" as Richard Bachman & "Desperation" under this name

J $600 2019 This author made the list at No. 24 with his epic "The Stand"

DJ $1,200 2022 In a book by this man, "Misery's Return" was a hard-to-execute novel by his character Paul Sheldon

Tom Clancy 9x $325 avg J:3 DJ:5 FJ:1

DJ $200 1999 In 1998 he brought back ex-Navy SEAL & former CIA agent John Clark in the techno-thriller "Rainbow Six"

FJ 2023 The name of this author dead since 2013 now appears on books written by a former U.S. marshal & a former Apache helicopter pilot

DJ $200 1991 Newsweek called this author of "Clear and Present Danger", "the king of techno-thrillers"

Should-Know (13)

Sister Carrie 7x 14.3% stumper $657 avg J:5 DJ:2

J $200 2024 In "The Weight of Blood", which reimagines this Stephen King tale, there's also a prom & revenge

DJ $800 1992 Though the heroine of this 1900 novel by Theodore Dreiser becomes a star, happiness eludes her

J $1,000 2019 This first novel by Theodore Dreiser was reissued nearly a century after it was published to add back 40,000 words

The Firm 5x $2,120 avg J:4 DJ:1

J $200 2010 Mitch McDeere heads to Memphis to practice tax law in this bestseller

J $800 2022 Mitch McDeere joins the law practice of Bendini, Lambert & Locke in this thriller by John Grisham

DJ $9,200 DD 2015 Harvard Law grad Mitch McDeere takes a job with a mafia-connected law partnership

The Da Vinci Code 5x $1,960 avg J:4 DJ:1

J $200 2023 A mystery: "Langdon said... 'Well, folks, as you all know, I'm here tonight to talk about the power of symbols"'

J $600 2015 "Renowned curator Jacques Sauniere staggered through the vaulted archway of the museum's grand gallery"

DJ $8,000 DD 2011 A bestseller: "Renowned curator Jacques Sauniere staggered through the... archway of the museum's Grand Gallery"

Scott Turow 5x 20.0% stumper $600 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $400 2001 This author's "One L ", about the first year of law school, read "as if it were the most absorbing of thrillers"

J $600 2009 The jury's in on his novels "Pleading Guilty" & "Presumed Innocent"

DJ $400 1992 His "Presumed Innocent" was the best-selling paperback novel of 1988

Agatha Christie 5x $380 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $100 1987 "Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend" she wrote in her 1st Hercule Poirot novel

DJ $1,200 2002 This prolific British mystery writer's last published novel was 1976's "Sleeping Murder"

DJ $200 1997 "The Mirror Crack'd" is one of several of her novels to feature Miss Jane Marple

The Shining 4x $475 avg J:4

J $200 2005 Jack Torrance becomes the winter caretaker of the Overlook Hotel in this book

J $500 DD 2001 One review said that this 1977 horror novel "can burn its images--such as room 217--into your brain"

J $400 2022 Named for young Danny Torrance's psychic gift

The Name of the Rose 4x $600 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $200 1994 Umberto Eco's novel "Il Nome Della Rosa" was published under this title in English

DJ $600 1986 1983 Umberto Eco best seller about murder in a medieval monastery

DJ $1,200 2016 A monk turns detective & investigates a murder at a medieval abbey in this Umberto Eco work

Spenser 4x $650 avg DJ:4

DJ $200 1990 "Stardust" is Robert B. Parker's 17th novel about this detective for hire

DJ $600 1993 Burt Reynolds was "For Hire", so he got the job reading "Stardust", a novel about this detective

DJ $1,200 2015 Since Robert B. Parker's death, Ace Atkins has taken over writing the books about this detective for hire

Nancy Drew 4x $350 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $200 2024 As Carolyn Keene, Mildred Benson wrote "The Hidden Staircase" & "The Bungalow Mystery" featuring this teen detective

DJ $800 2016 "The Mystery at Lilac Inn" was the fourth novel to feature this teen detective

DJ $200 1999 Numbers 72, 73 & 74 in her "Files" by Carolyn Keene make up the "Passport to Romance" trilogy

Hannibal Lecter 4x 66.7% stumper $800 avg J:2 DJ:1 FJ:1

J $200 2023 In a book by Thomas Harris, Clarice Starling notes a hockey mask & a Kansas gallows vest used to restrain this serial killer

J $1,000 DD 2001 In a 1999 review Stephen King called this title character a Count Dracula for the computer age

FJ 2012 The first time we meet this man in a 1981 novel, he's in his cell holding "Le Grand Dictionnaire de Cuisine"

Ecclesiastes 4x 25.0% stumper $1,050 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $600 2020 "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven"

DJ $1,200 2025 "A Time to Kill", John Grisham's novel about a murder trial in the South, takes its title from this Bible book

J $800 2025 "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven"

Dean Koontz 4x 50.0% stumper $950 avg DJ:4

DJ $400 2000 Books by this master of horror include "The Door to December" & "Demon Seed"

DJ $800 2002 "Seize the Night" by this "Dean" of suspense was a sequel to his "Fear Nothing"

DJ $1,000 1997 In 1997 this author of "Watchers" & "Intensity" published a new thriller, "Sole Survivor"

Christine 4x $1,100 avg J:2 DJ:2

DJ $800 1996 This 1983 Stephen King novel focused on a Plymouth Fury with a mind of its own

J $1,000 DD 2016 The full fury of a haunted 1958 Fury

J $1,000 DD 2005 Chapter 1 of this novel says, "This here is the best car I ever owned"

Worth Knowing (20)

The Stand 3 Moriarty 3 Miss Marple 3 Misery 3 Marathon Man 3 Dashiell Hammett 3 Dan Brown 3 Batman 3 A Time to Kill 3 X 2 Wall Street 2 Under the Dome 2 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold 2 The Rainmaker 2 The Moonstone 2 The Hunt for Red October 2 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 2 The Client 2 The Andromeda Strain 2 Ted Koppel 2

American Literature

33 answers | 132 clues

Must-Know (2)

The Scarlet Letter 9x $644 avg J:5 DJ:4

J $200 2024 Arthur Dimmesdale is Hester Prynne's baby daddy in this novel

DJ $800 2011 Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale is Hester Prynne's baby daddy in this classic

DJ $3,000 DD 2017 A quote from this 19th century novel: "Woman, it is thy badge of shame!"

The Great Gatsby 8x $900 avg J:4 DJ:4

J $200 2011 (Dana Delany presents the clue.) I love this 1925 F. Scott Fitzgerald masterpiece, with its gorgeous prose & moral themes--some say I'm a bit Daisy Buchanan myself

J $600 DD 2023 Neighbor & narrator Nick Carraway doesn't mind some loud parties in this American classic

DJ $1,200 2006 Fitzgerald:"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaslessly into the past"

Should-Know (16)

East of Eden 7x 14.3% stumper $1,086 avg J:4 DJ:3

DJ $400 2010 (Oprah gives the clue from a chair) Even today the perfect summer read is this John Steinbeck novel of good & evil centering on the Trask family

J $600 2021 Cain ended up living in Nod, which Genesis says is here, giving this Steinbeck novel its title

J $1,000 2014 Lying sick in bed, Adam gives his son Caleb his blessing by saying the Hebrew word "timshel"

John Steinbeck 7x 28.6% stumper $800 avg J:1 DJ:6

DJ $600 1993 He worked on the screenplays of his stories "The Pearl" & "The Red Pony"

DJ $1,000 1993 His last novel "The Winter of Our Discontent", was published in 1961

DJ $600 1992 This author continued his story of Doc & "Cannery Row" in a sequel called "Sweet Thursday"

To Kill a Mockingbird 6x $500 avg J:4 DJ:2

J $200 2019 This Harper Lee classic topped the list & was the favorite book of 48 states as well

J $600 2009 "His lips parted into a timid smile, and our neighbor's image blurred with my sudden tears. 'Hey, Boo,' I said"

J $200 2016 Harper Lee's "Go Set a Watchman" features characters from this novel set 20 years earlier

Stuart Little 6x 16.7% stumper $467 avg J:4 DJ:2

J $200 2021 This mouselike boy has an older brother named George & is friends with a bird named Margalo

J $600 2022 E.B. White wrote that this character "had ...a mouse's tail, a mouse's whiskers"

J $400 2017 At birth, this title E.B. White character "could have been sent by first class mail for three cents"

F. Scott Fitzgerald 6x 40.0% stumper $540 avg J:2 DJ:3 FJ:1

DJ $200 1991 His last completed novel, "Tender is the Night", was published in 1934

DJ $800 2007 He dedicated "The Beautiful and Damned" to Shane, Leslie, George, Nathan & Maxwell Perkins for their literary help

J $1,000 2016 Stewart O'Nan's "West of Sunset" chronicles the life of this troubled writer in 1937 Hollywood

The Grapes of Wrath 5x $600 avg J:3 DJ:2

J $200 2011 Thisnovel is all about our Depression

J $800 2018 1939:On the Joad again

DJ $1,200 2022 When Hitler saw this 1940 movie based on a Steinbeck novel, he saw Americans as pushovers; Stalin relished the misery of the proletariat

Moses 5x $680 avg J:4 DJ:1

J $200 2021 "Stranger in a Strange Land" refers to this leader exiled in Exodus; his son's name means "stranger there"

J $1,000 2011 "The Bear" is one of the stories in Faulkner's collection called "Go Down," him

J $200 2003 Water came out of the rock at Kadesh after he struck it with his rod

Willa Cather 4x 25.0% stumper $1,000 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $400 2018 This author left her familiar prairie settings for New Mexico in "Death Comes for the Archbishop"

DJ $800 1992 "O Pioneers!" was the first novel she set in Nebraska

DJ $1,000 1988 At age 9, this Virginian moved to Nebraska, which she used as the setting for "O Pioneers!"

Paris 4x 25.0% stumper $550 avg DJ:4

DJ $200 1993 Ernest Hemingway's "A Moveable Feast" is a memoir of his years in this European capital

DJ $1,200 2024 Written in the voice of Hemingway's first wife Hadley:"The ___ Wife"

DJ $400 2016 The 1910 novel "The Phantom of the Opera" is set in this city

Oxford 4x $675 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $300 1989 The Press of this university publishes "Companions to" English Lit, Art & the Theatre

DJ $800 2019 The square in Square Books is in this Mississippi college town where William Faulkner lived

DJ $1,200 2018 Signaling ancient secrets, a book magically appears at this Univ.'s Bodleian Library in "A Discovery of Witches"

Jack London 4x 25.0% stumper $850 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $800 2016 The Sealing schooner ghost is brutal Captain Wolf Larsen's ship in a 1904 tale by this man

J $1,000 2011 In 1910 this man published his story collection "Lost Face", which includes "To Build a Fire"

J $800 2007 In 1929 Italy banned his "Call of the Wild" & Yugoslavia banned all of his books as being too radical

J.D. Salinger 4x 75.0% stumper $950 avg J:2 DJ:2

DJ $200 1994 Sex & profanity are reasons schools have pulled his "The Catcher in the Rye" from reading lists

J $1,000 DD 2014 In 1974 he sued & stopped the sale of a book of his "Complete Uncollected Short Stories"

J $1,000 DD 2009 The first line of his 1951 novel mentions a "lousy childhood ... and all that David Copperfield kind of crap"

Herman Melville 4x $625 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $100 2001 An 1853 fire at his publisher's warehouse burned the remaining stock of his books, including "Moby Dick"

DJ $600 1993 His second book, "Omoo", was based on his experiences as a mutineer in Polynesia in 1842

DJ $1,600 2021 In 1846 he became a "Typee" personality, taking "a Peep at Polynesian Life"

Hemingway 4x $600 avg DJ:4

DJ $200 1996 A 1942 edition of his "For Whom the Bell Tolls" included an introduction by Sinclair Lewis

DJ $600 1992 "The Garden of Eden", which he began writing in the '40s in Cuba was published in 1986

DJ $1,200 2015 In 1935 this novelist delved into nonfiction, writing about a safari he took in "Green Hills of Africa"

Dickens 4x 25.0% stumper $750 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $400 2007 Appropriately, he dedicated "Our Mutual Friend" to Sir James Emerson Tennent, "as a memorial of friendship"

DJ $600 1989 British author whose last completed novel was "Our Mutual Friend"

J $1,000 2016 Mrs. Gamp & Tom Pinch are characters in this author's "Martin Chuzzlewit"

Beloved 4x $700 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $200 2009 This Toni Morrison novel won a 2006 Times survey of prominent literary types looking for the best fiction in the last 25 years

DJ $800 2019 Born a slave, Sethe escapes to Ohio but is haunted by memories of a lost baby in this Toni Morrison novel

J $1,000 2025 Engraved on a headstone, the last word of this Toni Morrison work is also the title

Worth Knowing (15)

Toni Morrison 3 Tom Sawyer 3 The Catcher in the Rye 3 Mississippi 3 Mark Twain 3 Harper Lee 3 August 3 Truman Capote 2 Travels with Charley 2 The Call of the Wild 2 The Bluest Eye 2 Sweden 2 New Hampshire 2 Louisa May Alcott 2 Little Men 2

Poetry

32 answers | 119 clues

Must-Know (2)

Psalms 8x 14.3% stumper $543 avg J:6 DJ:1 FJ:1

J $200 2014 Poems that praise God

J $600 2025 "Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands. serve the Lord with gladness: come before his presence with singing"

FJ 2018 The title of this Old Testament book is from the Greek for "song sung to a harp"

Gone with the Wind 8x 12.5% stumper $475 avg J:5 DJ:3

J $200 2025 "You should be ashamed of yourself, comparing a fine man like Ashley Wilkes to a scoundrel like Captain Butler!"

DJ $2,000 2009 This Southern saga published in 1936 gets its title from a line in a poem called "Cynara"

J $200 2012 The 1936 bestseller "Vom Winde Verweht"

Should-Know (11)

Song of Solomon 7x 66.7% stumper $933 avg J:3 DJ:3 FJ:1

J $600 2011 Macon "Milkman" Dead is on a quest for his identity in this novel by Toni Morrison

DJ $1,200 2025 Milkman Dead travels to Shalimar & hears a song about his great-grandfather flying in this Toni Morrison work

FJ 2004 "I am the rose of Sharon" & "When you know your name, you should hang on to it" are from 2 different books titled this

Of Mice and Men 7x $1,000 avg J:5 DJ:2

J $200 2018 In this Steinbeck work, Lennie remembers what to do if anything goes wrong: "Hide in the brush an' wait for George"

J $600 2012 John Steinbeck's "Von Mausen und Menschen"

J $1,000 DD 2015 John Steinbeck changed "Something That Happened" to this title, a reference to a Robert Burns poem

Numbers 6x 33.3% stumper $1,183 avg J:5 DJ:1

J $300 1999 Name of the book whose second verse begins, "Take ye the sum of all the congregation"

J $600 2003 In chapter 1 of this aptly named book, God orders that the first census of Israel be taken

J $1,000 2007 Slang term for an illegal lottery run by organized crime

George Eliot 6x $1,033 avg J:1 DJ:5

DJ $800 2022 "Middlesex" is a 21st century novel by Jeffrey Eugenides; "Middlemarch" is a 19th century novel by her

J $1,000 2009 She wrote about her early life in' "The Mill On The Floss"

DJ $1,200 2013 Writer Andrew Davies adapted this novelist for 1994's "Middlemarch"

Fahrenheit 451 5x 25.0% stumper $950 avg J:2 DJ:2 FJ:1

J $200 2023 The hero was named for a real-life paper company; I wanna be a fireman, in reverse

DJ $800 2018 Here's Tim Robbins with this classic that pains a terrifying vision of the future"Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!"

J $2,000 DD 2007 Appropriately, Part 3 of this 1953 novel is "Burning Bright"

Thomas Hardy 4x 25.0% stumper $1,300 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $400 1994 His novel "Far From the Madding Crowd" was first published as a serial in Cornhill Magazine

DJ $800 2008 He left his heart & the remains of 2 wives "Far From The Madding Crowd" at Stinsford Church near Dorchester

DJ $2,000 2011 "A Pair of Blue Eyes" is one of this author's "Wessex novels"

the Oxford English Dictionary 4x $800 avg DJ:1 FJ:3

DJ $800 1989 Britannica calls this dictionary "the supreme completed achievement in all lexicography"

FJ 2011 The 2003 bestseller "The Meaning of Everything" is subtitled "The Story of" this reference classic

FJ 2009 When they began in 1879, the creators of this thought they'd finish in 10 years; 5 years later, they reached "ant"

Salman Rushdie 4x $550 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $400 1992 We know he wrote 1990's "Haroun and the Sea of Stories"; we just don't know where he wrote it

DJ $600 1996 His 1981 novel "Midnight's Children" wasn't quite as controversial as "The Satanic Verses"

DJ $400 1989 Marianne Wiggins, wife of this "Satanic Verses" author, cancelled a tour for her book, "John Dollar"

Paradise Lost 4x $1,750 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $200 1986 The sequel to this John Milton classic is "Paradise Regained"

DJ $6,000 DD 2021 "Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit" is the first of this poem's more than 10,000 lines

DJ $400 2018 This Milton poem has the lines "so talked the spirited sly snake; and Eve, yet more amazed, unwary thus replied"

For Whom the Bell Tolls 4x $1,100 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $800 2024 Ring in if you know this Hemingway novel is about Robert Jordan, who fights on the losing side in the Spanish Civil War

DJ $1,200 2025 During the Spanish Civil War, Robert Jordan spits some game at a loyalist named María & then faces death like a hero

DJ $800 1992 The title of this 1940 Hemingway novel was derived from a John Donne work

baseball 4x 50.0% stumper $750 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $400 2017 "Man on Spikes" by Eliot Asinof

DJ $600 1994 George F. Will had a 1990 bestseller with "Men at Work: The Craft of" this sport

DJ $1,600 2015 "Bang the Drum Slowly"

Worth Knowing (19)

The Satanic Verses 3 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 3 Shel Silverstein 3 Robert Louis Stevenson 3 Mary Shelley 3 Kirk Douglas 3 Frankenstein 3 Fall 3 Cats 3 (Allen) Ginsberg 3 Wounded Knee 2 The Snowy Day 2 The Mill on the Floss 2 The Decameron 2 T.S. Eliot 2 Richard Parker 2 poetry 2 No Country for Old Men 2 Nantucket 2

British Literature

30 answers | 116 clues

Must-Know (3)

Ruth 9x 33.3% stumper $844 avg J:8 DJ:1

J $200 2015 Justice Ginsburg; late screenwriter Prawer Jhabvala

J $600 2023 The book of this woman tells the story of a Moabite widow who was an ancestor of King David

J $1,000 2021 Naomi has a devoted daughter-in-law; Boaz needs some gleaning done

1984 9x $444 avg J:7 DJ:2

J $200 2023 O'Brien is a powerful & shadowy member of the Inner Party in this Orwell work

J $600 2025 "'We, the party, control all records, and we control all memories. Then we control the past, do we not?'"

J $200 2001 Winston Smith lives in Oceania in this George Orwell work

Jane Eyre 8x 12.5% stumper $1,225 avg J:3 DJ:5

J $600 2011 Mr. Rochester's Thornfield Hall, burned down by the insane Bertha Mason

J $1,000 2019 After this title character accepts Rochester's proposal, lightning splits a chestnut tree at Thornfield Hall

DJ $800 2014 Adele Varens is the pupil to whom this title Bronte character is a governess

Should-Know (11)

All The King's Men 7x 16.7% stumper $767 avg J:1 DJ:5 FJ:1

DJ $200 1988 Robert Penn Warren took this novel's title from a line in "Humpty Dumpty"

J $600 2010 1946:"None of the Queen's Gals"

DJ $1,000 1998 Jack Burden is this book's central character; the 1949 movie switched it to Willie Stark

Pride and Prejudice 7x $871 avg J:5 DJ:2

J $400 2016 Curtis Sittenfeld made Liz' older sister Jane a yoga instructor in "Eligible", a retelling of this classic

DJ $800 2009 Seth Grahame-Smith rewrote this beloved Jane Austen novel, adding ultraviolent zombie mayhem

J $1,600 DD 2018 1813:Ms. Bennet confronts 2 specific things

Julia Child 5x $680 avg J:3 DJ:2

J $200 2023 We hope this Cordon Bleu alum didn't cut the Dickens out of her finger as she was "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" in 1961

J $600 2021 She wrote her groundbreaking 1961 French cookbook "For the Servantless American Cook"

DJ $2,000 DD 2017 This American woman is the subject of "The French Chef in America"

From Here to Eternity 5x 40.0% stumper $1,080 avg DJ:5

DJ $600 1992 James Jones called his 1962 sequel to this novel "The Thin Red Line"

DJ $1,600 2017 One cover of this James Jones book depicts burning wreckage beyond some palms

DJ $600 1988 1st novel by James Jones, it outsold all other works of fiction in 1951

Wuthering Heights 4x 25.0% stumper $900 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $400 2018 1847:Heathcliff is a bad cat

DJ $800 2025 Edgar Linton reps Thrushcross Grange, has got some serious ducats & is fittin' to rizz up Cathy

DJ $2,000 2010 Isabella Linton, Hareton Earnshaw

Treasure Island 4x $800 avg J:3 DJ:1

DJ $200 1994 The concept for this Robert Louis Stevenson book grew from a map he devised while telling his stepson stories

J $800 2014 The Hispaniola reaches Bristol & Captain Smollett retires

J $1,800 DD 2015 "I Strike the Jolly Roger"

Tess of the d'Urbervilles 4x $800 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $400 2023 Retty Priddle & incredibly helpful for the category Alec d'Urberville

DJ $1,200 2013 Thomas Hardy:"A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented"

J $400 2011 The Slopes, the estate of the Stoke-d'Urbervilles

Little House on the Prairie 4x $500 avg DJ:4

DJ $400 2025 "By the Shores of Silver Lake" is the fifth book in this series about pioneer life

DJ $800 2009 Laura Ingalls Wilder's 1935 book

DJ $400 2015 "Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and baby Carrie left their little house in the big woods" for this title home

Laura Ingalls Wilder 4x $475 avg J:3 DJ:1

DJ $200 1989 Rose Lane, biographer of Henry Ford, was the daughter of this "Little House" author

J $500 1991 Chapter 11 of her book "Little House on the Prairie" is titled "Indians in the House"

J $600 2020 In the 1970s & '80s Melissa Gilbert & Melissa Sue Anderson starred in "Little House on the Prairie", based on books by this author

Daniel Defoe 4x 25.0% stumper $850 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $200 1999 You might have to be on a desert island before you get around to his 1722 novel "Colonel Jack"

DJ $800 1987 Among his title characters are a pickpocket named Col. Jack & a castaway named Crusoe

DJ $2,000 2019 The 1722 novel "Moll Flanders" by this author has been taken off shelves for lewdness

The Plague 4x $1,000 avg DJ:4

DJ $600 1998 Laurie Garrett's 1994 science book about "The Coming" one of these makes the bubonic one sound mild

DJ $1,600 2019 Daniel Defoe's account of events in 1664-65 was called "A Journal of the" this "Year"

DJ $800 2023 A deadly epidemic is sweeping through Oran, Algeria in this classic by Albert Camus

Worth Knowing (16)

The Hobbit 3 Heathcliff 3 Gulliver's Travels 3 David Copperfield 3 A Tale of Two Cities 3 (George) Orwell 3 Winter 2 War of the Worlds 2 Virginia Woolf 2 Tolkien 2 The Invisible Man 2 the Bobbsey Twins 2 Rudyard Kipling 2 Orlando 2 March 2 Kidnapped 2

Children's Literature

23 answers | 89 clues

Must-Know (1)

Goodnight Moon 9x $444 avg J:6 DJ:3

J $200 2025 "Goodnight starsgoodnight airgoodnight noises everywhere"

J $600 2019 The N.Y. Times said of this 1947 book, the words & the pictures "combine to lull and reassure when bedtime and darkness come"

DJ $1,200 2012 Margaret Wise Brown, author of this 1947 book about a bunny's bedtime, loved to hunt rabbits

Should-Know (12)

Charlotte's Web 7x $433 avg J:4 DJ:2 FJ:1

J $200 2018 Thisbeloved children's novel has twice been adapted for the big screen

J $600 2020 "La Telaraña de Carlota"

FJ 2012 A. cavaticus, the scientific name of the barn spider, inspired the middle initial & last name of a character in this book

The Wind in the Willows 6x 16.7% stumper $967 avg J:4 DJ:2

DJ $400 1989 The adventures of Toad, Rat & Mole were featured in this 1908 Kenneth Grahame children's classic

J $600 2005 The last paragraph of this 1908 novel mentions "the gallant water rat" & "the famous Mr. Mole"

J $1,000 2018 1908:Oh, the Rat & the Toad should be friends

Green Eggs and Ham 6x 20.0% stumper $840 avg J:5 FJ:1

J $200 2024 "Not in a box. Not with a mouse. Not with a fox. I will not eat them here or there. I do not like them anywhere!" in this kids' story

J $800 2022 I do like it:"Virent Ova! Viret Perna!!"

J $2,800 DD 2012 Georgeanne Brennan wrote a cookbook that shares its title with this Dr. Seuss classic

The Cat in the Hat 5x 20.0% stumper $240 avg J:5

J $200 2021 Wreaking havoc: "Le chat chapeauté"

J $200 2020 "El Gato Ensombrerado"

J $200 2017 Look out! In a Dr. Seuss sequel title, this beastly character "Comes Back"

Kurt Vonnegut 5x 20.0% stumper $1,140 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $300 2000 "Welcome to the Monkey House","Galapagos","Player Piano"

J $600 2016 After a little hocus pocus, this author's signature turns into aself-portrait

DJ $3,600 DD 2011 Kilgore Trout, the fictional author of several cleverly ironic sci-fi novels, is a character in many of his books

Dr. Seuss 5x $520 avg J:1 DJ:4

J $200 2025 1948:Young Marco fished in "McElligot's Pool", written by this man, who really was cool

DJ $600 1986 80-year-old author whose "The Butter Battle Book" was a parable of the nuclear arms race

DJ $1,200 2019 Learning to count was never more fun than with this author's "Ten Apples Up On top!"

The Wizard of Oz 4x $450 avg J:4

J $200 2020 Dorothy, Aunt Em

J $600 2015 "The Deadly Poppy Field"

J $200 2016 A tornado serves as a form of transportation in this modern fairy tale first published in 1900

The Sun Also Rises 4x 50.0% stumper $1,000 avg J:2 DJ:2

DJ $400 2007 Hemingway got the title for this 1926 novel from Ecclesiastes

J $600 2011 (Dr. Oz presents the clue.) A dramatic telegram in this Hemingway novel that I love reads, "Lady Ashley Hotel Montana Madrid arriving Sud Express tomorrow love Jake"

J $1,000 2023 This novel set in the 1920s asks, "'What do you know about Lady Brett Ashley, Jake?"'

Madame Bovary 4x $800 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $400 2016 "Before the wedding, she had believed herself in love", wrote Flaubert about this title woman

DJ $800 2013 Gustave Flaubert:"A Study of Provincial Life"

DJ $1,200 2008 This title Flaubert floozy's tryst ends (for a while) when her lover leaves to seek his fortune in Paris

James and the Giant Peach 4x $1,200 avg J:2 DJ:2

DJ $800 2008 "J.A.T.G.P."by Roald Dahl

J $1,000 2024 A grasshopper, earthworm & centipede appear in this book by Roald Dahl

J $1,400 DD 2016 In this Roald Dahl work, the title edible eventually comes to rest on top of the Empire State Building

Huckleberry Finn 4x 25.0% stumper $275 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $200 2016 This Mark Twain character is "hated" by moms because he is "vulgar & bad" but "all their children admired him"

J $200 2005 The "Adventures" of this character end when he tells us Tom's okay & he doesn't want to be adopted

J $300 1985 Critics called this character 1st introduced in "Life on the Mississippi", "a noble savage"

Alice in Wonderland 4x $525 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $100 1990 The adventures of this little English rabbit-chaser were 1st published in 1865

DJ $1,200 2018 Take a listen to Scarlett Johansson if you are curious about this classicI almost wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit-hole--and yet--and yet--it's rather curious, you know, this sort of life!

DJ $400 2019 1865: "She was walking by the White Rabbit, who was peeping anxiously into her face"

Worth Knowing (10)

Time 3 Joshua 3 Wicked 2 The Secret Garden 2 the 1950s 2 Slaughterhouse-Five 2 Peter Pan 2 Oh, the Places You'll Go! 2 Nabokov 2 Marlee Matlin 2

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Anne Rice 8x 12.5% stumper $562 avg J:6 DJ:2

J $100 2001 A 1995 review said that her "prose has vastly improved since the Baroque excesses of 'Interview with the Vampire"'

J $600 2024 "Prince Lestat" &"The Queen of the Damned"

DJ $1,200 2022 "East of Eden" is a classic by Steinbeck; "Exit to Eden" is a novel she wrote under the pseudonym Anne Rampling

William Faulkner 8x 37.5% stumper $800 avg J:4 DJ:4

J $200 1991 He added a history of the Compsons to "The Sound and the Fury" 15 years after it was first published

DJ $600 1993 He described his sensational 1931 novel "Sanctuary" as "The most horrific tale I could imagine"

J $1,000 2024 "Absalom, Absalom!" &"Light in August"

Should-Know (4)

Remembrance of Things Past 6x 16.7% stumper $1,700 avg J:2 DJ:4

J $600 2019 The French title of this epic 7-part novel literally translates to "In Search of Lost Time"

DJ $1,000 1986 "Swann's Way" is its 1st of 7 parts, "Time Regained", the last

J $800 2009 This 7-volume novel is based on Marcel Proust's life

In Cold Blood 6x $700 avg J:4 DJ:2

J $200 2009 2005, it return to bestseller list after long time, about 1959 Kansas murders, Tarzan horrified yet can't put book down

J $800 2020 Truman Capote said he introduced the nonfiction novel with this bestseller about the brutal murder of a Kansas farm family

DJ $2,000 DD 2025 The Spanish edition of this book was published under the title "A sangre fría"

Brave New World 6x $933 avg J:3 DJ:3

J $200 2008 "B.N.W."by Aldous Huxley

J $1,000 2016 Tarzan see what Huxley doing! Take title from line in "Tempest"! Irony noted in Tarzan Tuesday book group

DJ $400 2021 This Huxley novel is set in the year 632 AF (after Ford)

The Old Man and the Sea 5x $1,060 avg J:2 DJ:3

DJ $400 2023 At the start of this Hemingway book, Santiago hasn't caught a fish in a long time; it ends with his fish being eaten by sharks

DJ $1,600 2008 A marlin's skeletal remains play a pivotal role in this 1952 literary work

J $400 2021 A classic: "Le vieil homme et la mer"

Worth Knowing (2)

The Prince and the Pauper 3 Lord Jim 2

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